Year 2 Comparing, ordering and partitioning 2-digit numbers worksheet

“Which is bigger?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 maths unit “Comparing, ordering and partitioning 2-digit numbers”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 4 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Which is bigger?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can compare two-digit numbers using <, > and =.

A Look back3 min

1.
The tens number after 47 is
2.
What number do the blocks show?
3.
90 − 30 =

B Watch me, then you4 min

The mouth of < or > always opens towards the bigger number.

Watch me

Look at the tens first: 4 tens is more than 3 tens.

So 43 is greater than 34.

43 > 34

Now you

1.
52 57

C Your turn5 min

1.
68 86
2.
40 40
3.
91 19
4.
Write a number to make this true: 45 <

Say it out loud: When do you need to look at the ones?

D Spot the mistake2 min

Una says: “29 > 31, because 9 is bigger than 1.”

1.
Write the right sign: 29 31

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Put these in order, smallest first: 64, 46, 60, 49

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Which is bigger? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 50

2. 56

3. 60

B

1. < The tens are the same, so the ones decide. 2 ones is less than 7 ones.

C

1. <

2. =

3. >

4. Look for: Any number bigger than 45. Ask for the smallest one that works (46).

D

1. < Una compared the ones first. The tens decide it: 2 tens is less than 3 tens.

E

1. 46, 49, 60, 64

Words to use

Say“Look at the tens first. Are they the same?”

Instead of“Which number looks bigger?”

After the sheet

Write two-digit numbers on scraps of paper, one each. Read them out together and say which is bigger and how you know.

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The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Tens and ones parts(with a plan)
Splitting another way(with a plan)
Four number sentences(with a plan)
Tens and ones stories(with a plan)

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